Sprint extends its ‘cut your bill in half’ campaign

Overland Park-based Sprint, clinging to its third-place ranking among U.S. mobile carriers, is trying to squeeze more growth from the prepaid market by extending its “cut your bill in half” offer to prepaid customers of AT&T and T-Mobile US.

Sprint’s Boost Mobile prepaid unit is offering T-Mobile’s MetroPCS and AT&T’s Cricket Wireless customers 2.5 gigabytes of data for $20 a month, according to a statement.

Similar plans from MetroPCS and Cricket offer 2 gigabytes and 2.5 gigabytes for $40 a month.

Since taking over as Sprint’s chief executive officer last year, Marcelo Claure has been able to reverse years of customer losses with half-price offers and tablet promotions. The effort has been particularly successful with prepaid customers.

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In the first quarter, Sprint added 546,000 pay-as-you-go users, surpassing those of AT&T, Verizon Communications and T-Mobile combined.

Sprint’s focus on bargain hunters underscores the challenges the carrier faces in a market where growth has been slowing. Cutting prices is one of Sprint’s few options as T- Mobile continues to attract more of the lucrative postpaid customers that tend to be more loyal and add additional family members and devices to their plans.